Tarnished Earth is a dramatic street gallery of photographs by Jiri Rezac telling the story of tar sands, one of the world's biggest ecological disasters.
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To the President of the European Parliament:
The EU’s Fuel Quality Directive of 2008 contributes to the binding EU reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Europe by setting a legal target to reduce GHG emissions from transport fuels used in the EU by 6% by 2020. The detailed measures to implement this EU law must therefore take account of the higher GHG emissions of transport fuels derived from tar sands and control EU imports. The production of synthetic crude oil from tar sands emits on average 3 times more GHG emissions than conventional oil production. From a well to wheel perspective, the resulting fuels emit 18% to 49% more GHGs compared to the EU average for petrol. If fuels derived from tar sands feedstock were to be treated the same as petrol and diesel within the Fuel Quality Directive, or recognised as having only marginally increased GHG emissions, future imports of these high carbon fuels could jeopardise the EU target to reduce GHG emissions in transport fuels.
We call upon the European Parliament to ensure the Fuel Quality Directive achieves its goals of “encouraging the use of lower GHG intensity fuels” and “reducing GHG emissions from fossil fuel pathways” by ensuring the implementing provisions of Article 7a classify fuels derived from tar sands feedstock as having at least 25% greater GHG emissions than those from conventional crude oil, and that they are allocated a ‘default value’ of at least 107 gCO2eq/MJ as soon as possible.
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